From the Tribune
Longtime political and anti-violence activist Hal Baskin was found dead by his family Friday morning in his Englewood home, according to the Englewood Political Task Force.
Baskin, 66, was pronounced dead at 7:20 a.m. Friday in his Englewood home, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and Darryl Smith, a member of the task force.
Baskin was a former gang member who became a community organizer and at one point ran for alderman. U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Chicago, described Baskin as a passionate leader who kept him connected to …

If Twitter is now banning “extremist groups,” why does Antifa and Westboro Baptist Church still have accounts? Could it possibly be because neither of those groups will have an impact on the mid-terms that is negative for Democrats? https://t.co/rV9hlJqqK3

Betsy DeVos, in her latest and most dramatic move to de-regulate for-profit colleges and universities, announced she will end a rule to force them to prove their graduates are getting decent jobs https://t.co/6Z5G8UPg4L— The New York Times (@nyti…

Mayor de Blasio and Cynthia Nixon’s wife banded together with a bunch of City Hall aides in an effort to stop singing star Jennifer Hudson from performing at a Success Academy rally — by feeding her negative information about the charter network, ­e-mails obtained by The Post show.

The political conspiracy’s cast of characters included several top mayoral staffers and Christine Marinoni, who is Nixon’s wife and was working for the administration at the time.

De Blasio and his crew sprung into action when City Hall learned from news reports that the “Dreamgirls” star would be headlining at an October 2015 Success rally in Brooklyn and moved quickly to undo the deal.

Then-Deputy Mayor Richard Buery was tapped to “inform” the singer — a charter school supporter — about supposed problems at Success, which is run by de Blasio nemesis Eva Moskowitz.

Former de Blasio spokeswoman Monica Klein wrote several aides on Sept. 28, 2015, “As per the Mayor, cc’ed – Want to talk about finding her rep and having us inform them.”

Comrades De Blasio and Nixon do their part to protect a greedy monopoly.

A @nytimes analysis found the websites of Catholic hospitals rarely inform patients that they won’t provide certain reproductive and end-of-life services. When they do, it is on the the healthcare system’s parent site, and not easy to find. https://t.co/jNNTWATqc9